Wire-clamp.



J. M. KORDZIKO WSKI.

WIRE CLAMP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11, 1910.

1 Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

INVENTOR.

A T T ORNEY S',

JOSEPH M. KORDZIKOWSKI, OF THORNDIKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

WIRE-CLAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

Application filed July 11, 1910. Serial No. 571,296.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrr-r M. Konnzr- KOWSKI, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Thorndike, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful WVire-Glamp, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices designed and adapted to fasten securely together the cross wires in a fence or other wire structure, and consists of a strip or strap of ductile metal perforated and bent into certain peculiar shape, whereby the same is made capable of receiving two wires ar ranged in angular relation to each other and of being closed tightly onto them, all in such a way as to reneder the clamped parts relatively immovable, as hereinafter set forth.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive but strong and durable clamp that can be easily and quickly applied to Wires at and around their inter secting points and will hold them firmly, securely and permanently in place. I attain this object by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of a clamp which embodies my invention in a practical form; Fig. 2, an edge elevation of such clamp; Fig. 3, a rear elevation of such clamp; Fig. l, a front elevation of the clamp, showing it applied to two wires and ready to be closed; Fig. 5, a similar, elevation but showing the clamp closed on the wires, and, Fig. (3, a section on lines 66, looking in the direction of the arrow, in Fig.

Similar figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The clamp consists of a piece of ductile metal bent so to form a central transverse offset 1 at the back, and forwardly-extending top and bottom lips 2, the latter preferably converging more or less at their free ends. Angles 3-3 are formed at the ends where the lips 2 join the rearwardly-extending back portions which converge and meet in the center to form the offset 1. Approximately in the center of each angle 3 is an opening 4:. The openings 4 are large enough to receive a wire 5 of some given size, and the proportions of the parts are such that, when said wire is in said openings, there is sufficient space between the offset 1 and said wire to receive a second wire 7 arranged at right-angles to and of the same size as the first. Although the cross wires 5 and 7 are shown at right-angles to each other in the drawings, it may be desired to arrange them obliquely, and my clamp can be readily adapted to such an arrangement by simply inclining or slanting the offset 1, which is now horizontal, to whatever extent is required in order to bring it into agreement with the wire which it is to receive. involves no material change in the construction of the clamp. Then, again, wires of uniform size are represented, but the clamp is applicable to wires of different sizes, or may be made so by merely changing the size of the openings 4, or the angle. of the offset 1, or both. In this case as in the other is involved no material structural alteration.

In practice, the clamp is first slipped on to the wire 5, the latter going through both openings 4, then the wire 7 is passed through said clamp behind said wire 5 and between it and the offset 1, and finally the clamp is closed on said wires by means of a suitable implement or implements. In the act of closing not only are the lips 2 bent at the angles 3 downward on to the wire 5, but the back of said clamp and said lips are forced together around said wire, said back is forced into close contact above and below as well as behind with the wire 7, and said wires acting on each other as they are acted on by the aforesaid closing implement or implements partially interlock, as clearly shown in Fig. 6. Owing to the binding nature of the relationship which now exists between the clamp and the wires and between the wires themselves, the latter are securely and immovably held together by said clamp, and the joint thus formed is a permanent one. Even though sufficient pressure were not applied to the clamp to force out the wires, as at 8-8, in Fig. (3, so that they partially interlock, nevertheless, the joint which said clamp would make would be strong enough for many purposes, due to the factthat the clamp, constructed as it is, when closed, very forcibly and tenaciously grips said wires.

In fence work, the wire 5 is the vertical wire, and the wire 7 is the horizontal wire.

The relative positions of the wires and of the clamp, while the latter is open, are indicated in Fig. 2 as well as in Fig. 4, the wires being represented by dot-and-dash lines in the first instance.

As is plainly to be seen, upon referring to This ' prising the last two views, the peculiar construction or formation of this clamp enables it to be literally wrapped about the Wires, and itis very largely on this account or for this reason that said clamp constitutes such a powerful wire-gripping means in the way of grasping, confining, and uniting;

That this device is subject to change in size and to some change in shape, including what has hereinbet'ore been suggested, is obvious, hence I do not intend to. be restricted to. a clamp which is identical in all particulars with the one herein shown and described.

l/Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A binding clamp, for cross wires, coman intermediate body portion adapted to bind the first wire against the second, and end portions having openings therein to receive the second wire crossing the first, and being bent toward each other and both adapted to be bent against and about said second wire with the folded end portions pressed together.

2. A clamp, for cross wires of a wire Y fence, having a rounded and approximately V-shaped intermediate body portion, end portions projecting outwardly and toward each other and having wire-receiving openings, and being adapted to be bent inwardly against the wires and the body portion of said clamp.

3. A wire clamp comprising a body portion 1, and end portions 2, and having end openings 4, the combined length of the end portions, being substantially equal and not greater than the length of the body portion, and being adapted to be bent toward each other, substantially as shown JOSEPH M. KORDZIKO-WSKL Witnesses:

F. A. CUTTER, A., C, FAIRBANKS. 

